E.J. Dionne writes in The Washington Post: “Both the leaders and rank-and-file of the Republican Party devoutly believe ‘the people’ gave them a mandate last November to slash government, including that big-government health-care program known as Medicar…
Anna Holmes writes for The Washington Post about Donald Trump’s extensive history of sexism: “[His] ideas about women have explicitly political implications as well, echoing the ideology at the core of the antiabortion movement’s recently heightened ass…
Ruth Marcus writes in The Washington Post: “Absent the phenomenon of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton would have been president — and the arc of gender politics would have taken on a far rosier hue. In 1984, when Ferraro was tapped to be the vice presidenti…
Douglas Martin writes for The New York Times: “As Mr. Mondale’s surprise choice, Ms. Ferraro rocketed to national prominence, propelled by fervid feminist support, a spirited and sometimes saucy personality, canny political skills and the calculation by…
Brent Budowsky writes for The Hill: “The ideological assault against programs that benefit women in House GOP spending bills and similar attacks from many GOP governors will give a powerful boost to Democrats in 2012. Today a diversity of women’s groups…